Governing Rural England: Tradition and Transformation in Local Government 1780-1840

ISBN-13: 9780198204817 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 328 str.

David Eastwood

Opis

This study provides a new perspective on the process of state formation in modern England. Eastwood uncovers the complex interplay between central and local institutions that lay at the heart of Hanoverian polity, and shows how the transformation of local government in the early nineteenth century had a profound influence on the developing political culture and institutional framework of modern Britain.

Recenzje

detailed and scholarly book ... This is an important book which goes some way towards filling the lamentable gap in local government studies in this period, It is based on meticulous research in local archives and it is in many ways a model of county studies ... for restoring the county dimension to political and social history David Eastwood and his book deserve our respect and gratitude.